Fortunately Roy Hodgson already knows his best team ( shown in the gallery above ).

Its just as well because although the public want him to usher in the new guard they don’t have the patience to cope with the dip in results that will inevitably occur as those new recruits bed in.

What he will have to do next time is play a strong team and drop one or two of the players he wants to have a look at into that. Because although Chile did well on Friday night it was pretty much against a mix-and-match England that you didn’t really learn anything from.

Football is all about partnerships and all over the pitch there were players just not on the same wavelength. At centre-half, in midfield and down the channels.

Like I said, its a good job that England boss Roy is clear in his own mind about the team he wants to play and the options available to him.

He has moved away from that Anglo-Saxon 4-4-2 and it is now either 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1.

I like the latter and I think if the tournament was tomorrow Roy would start these players in those positions: